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Lessons Learned Over a Professional Career
Over Rob Panariello’s 40-year career, he has worked with an impressive roster of strength and conditioning coaches, business professionals, and medical practitioners. While he developed…
3 Simple Ways to Add Variety in Training Without Abandoning Your Principles
While hard work can be its own reward, athletes often get bored performing the same exercises day after day. Coach Mike Snowden suggests three simple…
9 (Fun!) Games to Develop Movement Skills and Athleticism
It’s no secret that kids love to play games, and youth coaches should take advantage of that to develop athletic skills. By manipulating a game’s…
Better Coaching Through Science—How to Collect Data That Matters
Everyone in the sports field likely knows the importance of tracking data to measure athletes’ progress over time. But useful metrics vary from sport to…
How to Gain Speed: Key Movement Exercises for High School Sprinters
Athletes can rise from the most inauspicious of beginnings with proper coaching and consistency. Coach Graham Eaton explains how to increase an athlete’s speed with…
Profiling and Training the Vertical Jump to Improve Multidirectional Speed
Plenty of research shows that profiling and training the vertical jump can improve multidirectional speed, which is critical to performance…
Dos and Don’ts for Athlete Wellness Questionnaires
A subjective wellness questionnaire serves as the epicenter for successful performance monitoring during competition, enhances the reflective and educational process…
How to Create a Base of Power and Speed
Although he admits it doesn’t reflect a paradigm shift in training, Coach Mario Gomez believes in helping his track and…
P-Hacking, HARKing, and Science’s Replication Crisis
According to some, science is currently experiencing a replication crisis, whereby researchers are unable to replicate other’s research findings when…
The Top Accommodating Resistance Methods for Strength Coaches
While the strength-specific science on the use of accommodating resistance continues to grow, its implementation is still disappointingly slow. Coach…
Making the Sheiko System Fit in American Powerlifting
After working under Boris Sheiko and running his program for three years, Coach Cann tweaked the Sheiko system, adapting it…
On Purpose: Asking the Right Questions to Deliver the Right Training
Understand the purpose of your training program and communicate the purpose to your athletes. A program works when the athlete…